The Concept of Schizophrenia: From Unity to Diversity

Table 1

Five selected (older) European studies on the long-term outcome of schizophrenia.

Author(s)		Sample	Length of illness up to follow-up	Outcome
				Good	Poor
Bleuler 1972/Zurich [555]	208	First-/readmitted patients treated by the author	>20 years	20%	24%
Hinterhuber 1973/Innsbruck [556]	157	First admissions	30–40 years	29%	31%
Ciompi and Müller 1976/Lausanne [557]	289	First admissions	37 years; (Range 10–65)	27%	27%
Huber et al. 1979/Bonn [558]	502	First-/readmissions	22 years; (Range 9–59)	22%	35%
Marneros et al. 1991/Cologne [554]	148	First admissions	25 years; (Range 10–50)	7%	42%

Source: [559], modified.